Verb: vom (vommed,vomming) vóm
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"The patient vommed repeatedly due to food poisoning";
- vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
Usage: informal
- The matter ejected in vomiting
"The nurse cleaned up the vom from the patient's bed";
- vomit, vomitus, barf [informal], spew [informal], sick [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: vommed, vomming, voms
Type of: body waste, egest, eliminate, excrement, excreta, excrete, excretion, excretory product, pass
Encyclopedia: Vom